"Those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

John F. Kennedy

"You Oft Beneath a Righteous Robe, May Find a Wolf Concealed"

Unknown, 1832

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.”

“The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

- Lewis Carroll,Through the Looking Glass

“It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.”

Darrin Weinberg

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”

William J.H. Boetcker

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

-Socrates-

The notoriety of the egotist dies with himself

"Memoria corum per lit cum sonitu.

Anonymous

"Let Justice Be Done, Though The Heavens May Fall"~Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.~

Anonymous

"Anyone who has never made amistake has never tried anything new "

Einstein

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”

Segal’s Law

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."

Herbert Hoover

Welcome to WaterBank®.Com, the world's first and most comprehensive website dedicated to creating a broad marketplace for buying, selling, and trading of:

Water Rights

Property & Water

Water Investments

Geothermal Water

Water Utilities

Bulk Water

Spring Water

Irrigation District Water

Bottled Water

Water from State Trust Lands

● Bottling Companies

● Abstraction Licenses

In the present period of economic uncertainty, investors worldwide are looking for hard assets. These include minerals and metals, oil and gas, timber, and water. Sophisticated investors seek actual direct ownership opportunities rather than investment in companies that own and control the hard assets. Over the past ten years, WaterBank® has provided consulting services to the flagships of investor firms in the United States and Europe. Additionally, we have provided consulting services to investment firms that manage the personal fortunes of some of the icons of American business. In the water space their interests have ranged from the acquisition of water rights, water sources, bottling companies, wastewater utilities, water storage facilities, pipeline companies, ground-water exploration firms, bulk water transport. WaterBank® has its fingers on the pulse of all aspects of the water business.

WaterBank®acts as a water-rights broker and mergers and acquisition specialist. You can list water rights, water utilities, wells, springs, bulk water, bottled-water businesses, disaster relief and emergency water supplies, irrigation project water, and geothermal water. This information comes to us in large quantities and the listings on our website are a small fraction of the opportunities in our databases.

WaterBank®acts as a consultant to clients when it mines its databases for specific assets and as the merger and acquisition specialist in consummating transactions.

WaterBank®is the only firm in the United States that carries out the valuation of water assets based on hard transactional data rather than academic research. Our clients range from municipalities to Indian tribes to private land owners. The valuation of water assets is unlike the appraisal of real estate. It requires knowledge of water law and hydrology as well as the legal and regulatory regime.

Water transactions and the acquisition of businesses in the water field require more than just listing water assets for sale. It requires hands-on experience to navigate the legal, financial, and regulatory process. WaterBank® provides theexpert services necessary to complete transactions.WaterBank®is both a licensed real estate firm and a licensed escrow company. The principal of WaterBank® is an internationally recognized expert with more than 40 years of experience in surface and ground-water hydrology, real property law, and water-related transactions.

WaterBank® provides land-ownership determination, preparation of chains-of-title, title abstracts, attorney's title opinions, and curative title work for specific projects, assignments of trademarks and other matters that are commonly required to satisfy buyers, bankers, bond counsel, and securities regulations. If your property was subject to any title transfers through the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. a clean chain-of-title may be difficult to obtain.

WaterBank®has helped a number of clients complete tax-free exchanges of their assets under 26 U.S. 1321(a) whereunder the proceeds of the sale of water rights are used to purchase other real estate property while retaining the taxable basis of the original property. This option is attractive for corporations with water rights. If a corporation or a business trust with associate status sells water rights and makes a profit it pays taxes at its corporate rate. When the proceeds are distributed to shareholders as dividends, the proceeds are taxed again at the taxpayer rate. By utilizing Section 1031(a) of the Internal Revenue Code shareholders can receive payments directly thereby subjecting the proceeds to taxation once.

If you would like to donate water rights that you own to the WaterBank®has established a not-for profit trust created under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States. This enables the taxpayer to receive a tax deduction under Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. Vsit the WaterBank® Trust web page and contact us for details. WaterBank® Trust was established to receive and dedicate water rights for conservation purposes such as in-stream flow and other environmental purposes. If you are a resident of any other country and you are able to make charitable donations for tax purposes and would like to donate water rights to a charitable entity in your country, please contact us. We are able to establish charitable foundations in most countries that permit them.

WaterBank®works to develop efficient methods of trading project water for irrigation, municipal or industrial uses online, using the two-stage auction process for water and water rights. If you are interested in this activity, please contact us.

To initiate a business relationship with WaterBank®we require that our clients sign an engagement agreement that specifies our compensation and our duties. Our agreements require a replenishable retainer fee and a performance or success fee.

WaterBank®and its personnel wear many hats in addition to brokering and dealing in water-related assets. In addition to the services that WaterBank® offers, we are also a licensed real estate firm and a licensed escrow company in New Mexico. Because of the highly political character of water and agendas of parties to these transactions, we stay particularly well informed and the sources of much of our material is strictly confidential.

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